👉 General Market Update: U.S. stocks fell Friday, the latest U-turn for markets after a volatile week marked by big swings in both directions. Outsize moves both to the upside and downside show just how jittery investors have gotten this year. Inflation has remained uncomfortably high, despite the Fed raising rates at the fastest pace since the early 1980s. Economic growth is also slowing. That has made many investors build up bets against the market—which they have then sometimes, as in Thursday’s case, abruptly unwound.